Local congressional Democratic candidate Lesli Messinger apparently still hasn’t made a required financial disclosure.The website of the clerk of the U.S. House indicated this afternoon that the report, due to have been submitted no later than June 30, wasn’t on file.That means voters likely will have no opportunity to see it before they vote today.Messinger, who lives on Skidaway Island, is challenging 10-term Republican incumbent Jack Kingston of Savannah in the 1st Congressional District.Kingston filed his disclosure in May.

Any Republicans who volunteer to savor advice from Democrats should keep a salt shaker handy. Even so, I thought I’d share with readers at large the following observations by Tom Oxnard, founder of the Skidaway Democrats. Tom and I have sometimes disagreed sharply over the years, but I have always found his views interesting and thoughtful, and in this case, enough so to share with y’all. So here goes.“One of the best comments I have heard is a word of advice that one of the talking heads gave to the Republican gurus yesterday: Diversify!

President Barack Obama, or at least the folks his campaign pays to pay attention, must be smiling as the Jan. 21 primary there approaches.

Yes, the New Hampshire primary left Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, a strong frontrunner. But it did nothing – or at least not nearly enough – to clear his path of obstacles that can bruise him badly without knocking him out.

The John Oxendine for governor campaign repeatedly has hailed the results of periodic Rasmussen Reports polls.And seemingly with good reason: They all show the state insurance commissioner far ahead of his GOP rivals.One problem with polls, though, is that, depending on what you stress and what you gloss over, you can head in different directions.After each poll, the Ox campaign cites his big leads over his nearest rivals: former Secretary of State Karen Handel and U.S. Rep.

An able, distinguished and learned — but anonymous — person recently opined online that I’ve written too much about Eric Johnson.I suppose that comment on a recent blog makes sense if you’re four years short of Rip Van Winkle. That is, if you wake up after having slumbered 16 years.That’s about how long Johnson served in the General Assembly, most of it as a state senator.During that time he was among a half dozen or so folks most responsible for making the Republicans the majority party in Georgia.For four years, he was de facto lieutenant governor after the GOP took